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Viacom Lawyer Compares Suing File Sharers to Terrorism; general counsel Michael Fricklas admits that suing end users for online copyright infringement is “expensive, and it’s painful, and it feels like bullying.” ( Ars Technica )
Kyte Opens New Offices in UK, Germany; ...
Hardware
Samsung
Panasonic
Toshiba
HDTV
PC
The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has a piece on that comedy stalwart, Saturday Night Live , that almost reads like a surrender treaty. The article basically says that while there are some chuckles, the show just is a bit toothless, but that “ Saturday Night Live is a pop cultural ...
Online
Hulu took a step toward crowdsourcing its classification and discovery capabilities this morning, adding the ability for users to add tags to videos.
The online video site added a “Tags” tab alongside its “Reviews” and “Discussion” sections, which will ...
Online
Hulu
The rise of video streaming is dramatically affecting the Internet, according to a two-year study of Internet traffic trends that Arbor Networks recently presented to the North American Network Operators Group. Two years ago, Internet traffic was distributed evenly among a dozen Tier-1 network ...
Home Theater
Comcast
Roku vice president of marketing Chuck Seiber only gave us a teeny-tiny sneak-peek at the new Roku Channel Store at NewTeeVee Live couple weeks back, but the company officially launched the feature along with ten new free channels today.
Roku owners will now be able to get content on ...
Online
Pandora
This post is meant for a very particular group: the boyfriends of Twilight fans. You guys are a special class of men. You’ve put up with months of preparatory squealing and sighing over Taylor Lautner’s abs and Robert Pattinson’s…OK, maybe you’re not sure what ...
Other
Forget multitouch: By far the most disruptive — and overlooked — feature of the Flash Player 10.1 beta that Adobe launched this week is the ability to transmit video via P2P multicast. In fact, Adobe built some enhanced P2P capabilities into both the new Flash Player and Air 2 beta ...
Software
Adobe
BitTorrent
Edmonton-based Smibs today at the TechCrunch Real-time CrunchUp released a set of tools to package webcasts called VideoLobby . The service integrates Twitter and Facebook chatter, as well as a form to ask questions of a host that’s powered by a backend comment moderation system. Today, ...
Online
Stickam
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Today, NewTeeVee gets to do something we don’t normally get to do — review the competition. OK, technically The Web Files isn’t competition for us — we’re just covering the same beat using different mediums. In this web series about the making of web series, ...
Other
Boxee will be showing off a prototype of its widely anticipated standalone set-top box at next year’s Consumer Electronics Show , according to a source close to the company who asked not to be named, with commercial deployment slated for sometime in the first half of 2010.
Despite ...
Other
While it won’t move the needle much on its content library, IFC Entertainment announced yesterday that it will offer 53 films through Netflix’s Watch Instantly streaming service, reports Variety .
True, that’s not a very large number, but it marks the first time IFC is ...
Online
Netflix
Babelgum is closing down its Dublin headquarters and an office in Nice, according to a report in paidContent , moves that could signal the end is near for the online video site.
Babelgum says the cuts will allow it to streamline its business to “ensure continued growth.” The ...
Online
For once, everyone getting on board with an online video trend is a good thing. Following on the heels of Google’s announcement yesterday that it will add automatic captioning to YouTube videos , PLYmedia today said that it will be providing live captioning to video platforms Ooyala, ...
Online
YouTube
BBC Gives Technical Details of Its New iPlayer On the Wii; the U.K. broadcaster has encoded streams using H.264 at a 700 kbps bit rate, compared to 1.5 Mbps for regular TV or even 3.2 Mbps for HD. ( BBC ) Speaking of British TV, the U.K. version of YouTube debuted its new site section that ...
Home Theater
Sony
Blu-ray
DVD
The Pirate Bay made headlines earlier this week with yet another dramatic announcement, this time that the notorious BitTorrent site’s tracker has been officially shut down. But the move won’t impact downloading, site admins explained on a blog . Trackers are no longer needed to ...
Online
BitTorrent
The Pirate Bay
We’re big fans of the way the Microsoft Xbox LIVE game show 1 vs. 100 blurs the lines between TV and gaming. As the second season of 1 vs. 100 starts today (at 5 p.m. PT! Rush home and get in the mob!), it will have an added twist that makes this endeavor even more unique — ...
Gaming
Microsoft
Xbox Live
The online video revolution will be televised, meaning that it will soon show up on TVs, Blu-ray players and other connected devices, a panel of execs agreed at the Future of Television event in New York on Thursday. But the content that’s available on those devices could affect how much ...
Online
Twistage has re-imagined workflow for video platforms. Gone is the monolithic, player-centric video experience. The Twistage solution is both modular and flexible, giving you the freedom to define and build upon your own workflow.
As the world’s most customizable video platform, ...
Other
Justin Johnson , creative services lead at Next New Networks and one of the original writers for College Humor, was sitting at home yesterday with his girlfriend of six years, Marissa Nystrom. It was about 6:30 p.m. EST, their sixth anniversary as a couple, and a quiet night. They were making ...
